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Christian belief over the vast tract of country between
the Humber and the Tweed. Neither wa.s that all.
He passed over the former great estuary into the
district of Lindisse, or Lindsey, in Lincolnshire. " He
preached in the old Roman hill tov.n of Lincoln, and
its reeve, or 'prefect,' as Bede calls him, 'Bloecca'
by name, became a convert, and began to build 'a
stone church of noble workmanship,' the roofless
walls of which were standing in Bede's own day."
In Lincoln, moreover, he officiated on a very important
occasion.
Justus, the Archbishop of Canterbury,
had passed away, and Honorius was elected to
succeed him. Romanus, Bishop of Rochester, had
perished at sea, whilst on a voyage to Rome, and
Honorius sought consecration from Paulinus as the
only representative in England of the episcopal order.
Thus "the fifth archbishop of Canterbury was consecrated
by the sole ministry of the first of a new line
of bishops of Ycrk."i
Paulinus baptised multitudes
in Nottinghamshire also, in the waters of the Trent,
near a place " which is usually identified with Southwell,
where the minster of St. Mary, for ages connected
with the see of York, has always claimed
Paulinus as its founder."- Through Edwin's influence,
Christianity was also extended to East Anglia. Bede
tells us that his persuasions wrought upon Eorpwald,
—whose father, Redwald, had given shelter and protection
to Edwin in his day of need,—to embrace
the faith of Christ.
But the spirit of heathendom could not be at once
' Bright's "Early English Church History," p. 122.
"Hid, p. 123.